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Daimler’s moovel Group acquires Familonet GmbH, provider of location messenger app Familonet

Green Car Congress

In Germany, the mobility app moovel—available to download free of charge from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store—combines local public transport, the carsharing provider car2go, mytaxi, rental bicycles and Deutsche Bahn. The core markets are Germany, USA, Brazil, India and Turkey.

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Westport Innovations acquires alt fuel systems company Prins Autogassystemen for €12.2M

Green Car Congress

Prins’ established footprint in large emerging markets for alternative fuels including Turkey and Africa opens access to new markets for Westport’s products. Five countries—Korea, Turkey, Russia, Poland and Italy—together accounted for half of global autogas consumption in 2013. Operations. Mt, or 57%, over the 2003 level.

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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

Cars That Think

It was very important for me to present my scientific results at the IEEE conferences that take place in Turkey, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. We are limited in time, because in the morning goods are not yet in stores, and when they are delivered, there are long queues, or there are air raid alerts. It would be good for our family.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Austin Right Now

Baua Electric

Every creation from the baker Mariela Camacho feels simultaneously innovative and nostalgic — as if a panadería took a trip through the snack aisle of an American grocery store. PRIYA KRISHNA Various locations; veracruzallnatural.com In Texas, it’s not unusual to find exceptional food in a gas station or convenience store.

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

Cars That Think

content delivery networks (CDNs) used by streaming services such as Netflix help address the problem by temporarily storing content close to, or even inside, many ISPs. DOI number of a journal article or the ISBN of a book), and the Internet would handle forwarding the request to an available peer that has a copy.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

An artificial lake, Moti jheel, was also made for storing water. Marriyam, from Goa, Portugal was the Christian one and Rukaiya Begum, the Muslim one was from Turkey. He was also incharge of the khazana - or treasury, where the gold and solver coins were stored. Unfortunately no rice was available, but I enjoyed the dal-roti.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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